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Amazon.com

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Corporation

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    Founded by Jeff Bezos (1994)
    Online retailer
    Products include A2Z Development, A9.com, Alexa Internet, Amazon.com, Amazon Kindle, Amazon Studios, Amazon Web Services, Audible.com, dpreview.com, Endless.com, IMDb, LoveFilm, Zappos.com, Woot and Junglee.com
    NASDAQ: AMZN
    65,100 employees (2012)

Why Amazon.com might be annoying:

    They started as a book store.
    They are Nazis about their '1-Click' technology, of which they own the patent.
    Their Amazon Kindle implies the burning of the rainforest.
    They have a separate website for each country they are established in.
    Their warehouses are apparently pretty shitty places to work.
    They skirt sales tax laws.
    They are anti-union. They fired 850 employees involved in a unionization drive.
    They sold a book 'The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure' among other controversial titles.
    They sold a book 'The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure' among other controversial titles.
    Newt Gingrich writes book reviews for them.

Why Amazon.com might not be annoying:

    They own IMDB.
    They have a customer base of 30 million (2012).
    They handle all payments, so one does not have to have a separate payment account.
    They are Linux-based.
    Due to being an online retailer, they have a huge selection of goods.
    They own the exclusive digital rights to DC Comics (2011).
    They are responsible for the online presence of many traditional retailers.
    They allow users to write reviews (although these reviews tend to be either five-stars or one-stars).

Credit: D & Captain Howdy


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 9 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 31 Votes: 29.03% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 89 Votes: 46.07% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 246 Votes: 58.13% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 102 Votes: 41.18% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 10 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 26 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 19 Votes: 26.32% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 8 Votes: 12.50% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 39 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 188 Votes: 48.94% Annoying